Tag: quality

– Morning! How was your weekend?
– Morning! Well, we went do Poland to visit my boyfriend’s family and we...
– Oh, so you have a boyfriend? That’s ok. You know, I have gay friends.
– Erm... OK... So what? I have gay friends too. And straight friends... What’s your point?

I’ve bought my laptop from mySN.de / Schenker Technologies. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But it definitely was not. I feel scammed by them, I feel treated like trash by them. Their customer service is unprofessional, their hardware is crap and they don’t even seem to know what they have in storage and how much do their parts cost. Seriously!

I think it’s outrageous that the vote on marriage equality has been blocked for 12 years because of some personal whimsies of Angela Merkel. Even though an overwhelming majority of Germans supports it, even though a majority of Bundestag seems to support it as well, even if being treated equally by the authorities is a basic human right – it never got through.

And suddenly, Merkel gives one statement that is less anti-LGBTQ than usually, and everybody goes nuts, everything seems that we can finally get it done.

Being gay is not easy. Depending on where you live, it might mean different things to you. Best case scenario – some minor inconveniences. Worst case – even danger of death. LGBTQ youth has a higher suicide rate than their straight & cis friends, they fear getting disowned by their families, thrown out of their homes, in some countries being sentenced to prison or lashes... We don’t have equal rights, we can’t always show affection in public. Being gay can be scary, lonely and awful.

But there is also a good side to that. The side of being gay that I really really love!

Like in case of those religious fanatics in the screenshot above. You can tell they don’t have any respect for the reader whatsoever – not only from the pathetic content they serve, but also from the fact, that the advertisement takes up almost a half of their page. It’s like covering crap with some money-making crap and expecting nobody to notice you just want to screw them over.

That’s because of its double message: ironic thanks towards politicians for the years of idleness when it comes to LGBT rights, but also underlining that even if there were anything to thank them for, there actually wouldn’t – because LGBT rights are human rights, and treating your citizens equally, regardless of their sex, skin color, nationality, sexual orientation or gender identity, is something that everybody is simply entitled to.

Let’s be proud during Pride, let’s go out on the streets with our heads held high – not asking politicians for action, but demanding that our rights that we deserve finally get fully respected!